Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-05-28
KITCHEN ~SCRUBBlNG.
Soft, Absorbent Rags the Best Material TO
This ImpOrtnnt Work.

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This Important Work.
Old flannel of all kinds should be
kept for scrubbingand cleaning paint
undcryests, drawers, skirts, all come
in for it. In England, where Scrubbing
is still the glory Of the poorer people,
cottagcrs wing with each other on the
color of their boards, there is a coarse
gray flannel made, called ''housc llan-
nell expressly for the purpose. Next
to flannel is old coarse soft linen, old
kitchen towels, crash, etc. SO neccs-
sary to good cleaning is soft absorbent
material, that | would almost rather
my maids destroy articles of far more
value than the scrub cloths, because
the supply is so limited, especially if
we give away our disused undercloth-
inc, For this ease keep the supply
under your own care, see that after
each using the cloth is dried and not
thrown away, until it is really used as
long as possible. Many girls will be
conscientious about towels nddustcrS,
because they have a money value, but
cleaning cloths, being only rags, they
will consider may be thrown aside any
time and fresh ones taken. In addition
to the soft wet cloth, n dry rubber
(best made of old Russian crash that
has done service for round or dish
toweD should be kept; u scrubbing
brush of hard bristles is best, the soft
excelsior brushes are of little use except
for coarse paint, and brushes made of
broom straw, although not entirely
satisfactory, are about the best one can
get when bristlc brushes are not to be
had or are too expensive. Tables that
have been neglected may be bleachcd
by spreading on them over night u
layer of wood ashes, made into u NOR
tar-likc paste with water; the next day
brush it off and scrub. The same paste
| may be laid on floors when spotted with
grease. In cleaning floors never wet
too large u space at once. If beyond
the comfortable range of the arm, there
is almost certain to be Il dark
circle when dry, showing where you
leave off each piece, because, being
out of easy reach, you have no power
to scrub well or wipe dry. Always in
using the drying cloth, rub it well be-
You'd the space you are now cleaning
over, to the one last done. The use OF
a little washing soda or borax in the
water is excellent for boards, and il
they have been neglected, u small
lump of lime in the water greatly
helps TO make them white. After
cables are scrubbed attend to the sink,
put Il lump of washing soda as large us
an egg at least over the sink hole, and
pour q kettle of boiling water ovel
every part of it, using your sink brush
to send it into all greasy parts. Wash,
the last thing before the floor, all fin.
ger marks from the paint; also the
chairs if painted; the backs of them il
caned; the top of the flour barrel ant
the windows. BE especially careful t.
clean kitchen window stills; so many
things are put on them, they arc NOR,
apt to be soilcd than any others. Need
less to say that floors must always be
swept before they are washed. IL
clean oil cloth, do not scrub it unlcs
it has been badly cleaned many times
when, with the fine corrugated surfac,
now usual, the dirt, or rather the dirt,
water allowed to remain in it will hav,
grimmed it so that you will need t.
use n soft brush and scrub the way o
the lines; but usually, warm water
one wet and dry cloth are all that ar,
needed. Oil cloth and paiAt need tn,
wiping with Il coarse dry cloth as mucl
as boards, and will well repay TIL
, extra trouble. Skim milk used il
place of water to clean oil cloth give
, it brightness and luster. Painted floor
, must be treated just as oil cloth is.
|, have one thing more to say about tn
, kitchen sink. If you put in a lump G
soda weighing half a pound or NOR
every day or two, you will have n,
trouble with the drain pipe bccomin,
, cloggcd with grease. So large a picc
/ will dissolve very slowly. but all til
!; water that goes down will help {
cleanse instead of soil the pipe. When
4. ever you have q kettle Of boiling waite
, that you do not need at once, pour
into the sink Catherine 0re',, IN Goo
housekeeping.